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Aywas is a collectible pet site for older teens and adults. Adopt as many pets as you want, and explore the seven regions of Ay for wild pets to capture and add to your collection. We are a submission-based virtual pet website, so you can color pets, create items, and create Human Avatar clothes for everyone else to enjoy. We offer battling, breeding, mini-games, an active forum, and the ability to create your own custom aywas. Color the adoptable bases, and even edit them to look more like your characters. The possibilities are endless!

Not sure if you want to join? Why not check out our newbie tutorial for an outline of our features?

The Mystery Ticket and PMBC sales both end tonight at 11:59 PM! If you'd like to take advantage of this sale, be sure to get your order in before then (for EU users, that'd mean sending the order e-mail).
We raised the money to hire our new coder for the month! She's already gotten a lot done in the past day:
Public Crystal Check Archive
If you want your crystal check to be in the public archive you can choose to "opt in" and allow it to be visible in there.
Custom Item Preview - allows you to preview your custom items on the HA base before you send them off to Eveglori.
"Send Funds" link on profiles. "Auctions" links on profiles.
"Private Lots" in the Trading Post
Fixed HA Contest Timer
Fixed "View All Comments" in User Profile SQL Error
Fixed Deposit Box Upgrade Search
Imagine what she'll do tomorrow...

Art Gallery
The art gallery has been judged!
The theme was Hybrid Hybrids and we received so many amazing entries! The Nimbus was quite the popular fellow, too.
Here are our featured winners:
They won:
Congratulations!
The current theme is Easter*!
Any medium is acceptable, just make sure it's Aywas-related as always. <3
As a starred (*) theme, you can enter this even if you've won recently or plan on entering upcoming contests.
Official Aywas stock is not permitted for this theme.
Good luck!
Some new themes have also been added!March 29th - April 4th: Easter*
April 5th - April 11th: Lunaris*
April 12th - April 18th: Spring and/or Autumn
April 19th - April 25th: Baby Pets*
April 26th - May 2nd: HA Wardrobe
Remember, if you have an idea for an Art Gallery theme, please share it with us here! This thread in the Think Tank is always open, and I reference it frequently when creating new themes. :)
Thank you!
- Eri

Hello everyone! I wanted to give you a bit of a heads up that I'll be changing the stock in my shop come April 6th! So if you want to own any of these pretty pets I currently am selling, you should buy them before April 6th. On April 6th they will be permanently retired and new pets will take their place!

We have a brand new feature for everyone to enjoy! The new Oekaki Art Boards are available for users to draw on. If you are familiar with oekaki boards, go right ahead and enjoy!
In case you didn't know, an oekaki board is a java applet that allows you to draw right on your web browser and upload the picture to the Aywas Oekaki Galleries. There, other players can enjoy and comment on your artwork. Be sure to read the Knowledge Base on the Oekaki Boards to help you configure Java to use the boards, as well as read over the rules.
A new forum board has been created to discuss the oekaki boards, as well as help troubleshoot issues with Java and your browser if you are having difficult accessing the boards.
The Mystery Box is open again, funding a month's work time from this new coder!
We really like this new coder (one of our community members, Rems (#26), so you might know them if you joined Aywas early on). They set up the applet and its gallery/board feature within a day, which is very impressive. This coder has April off university to work on Aywas and gave us a flat rate for her time, so let's see if we can hire her on.
Mystery Box Tickets come free with every purchase of $5 in GP or USD Items. This lasts for roughly 24 hours, same as last time. Yes, the PMBC sale is stacking with it! As always, if you decide to go the USD Items route, send me a message with your total when you are done.
Assuming we are able to hire her on for the month, stop by the Suggestions forum and post any ideas you have for her to make, so we can make the most of our month. New features, additions or upgrades to old features, post support on ideas you like, etc. (Please note we likely won't be editing Adventure because we're currently in the process of working on it with another programmer.)
On another note, we are currently five SCC bases away from running another BP Sink Event, so if you're an SCC artist and want to make a base for that event, contact me! It'd be nice to start off April with one like we did with March.
Enjoy the oekaki boards, looking forward to seeing what everyone draws!

Owlcatpup (#5638) is back with a sequel to the first HA item they put into Trash for Treasure,
which will be available until 11:59pm April 28th.